Severe dopaminergic neurotoxicity in primates after a common recreational dose regimen of MDMA (" ecstasy")

Abstract

The prevailing view is that the popular recreational drug (±) 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, or “ecstasy”) is a selective serotonin neurotoxin in animals and possibly in humans. Nonhuman primates exposed to several sequential …